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On Jan 22, 3:18 pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:

The free marketplace of ideas and advertising, in the real world, have
little to do with each other.

Ed Huntress

But in the real world of politics you don't have just one side
presenting ideas. So even with advertising you have a free
marketplace of ideas.

But it ain't free. The majority of it goes to those with the most money.


Sit back and relax. You are going to see just how little this changes
things. The political advertisements just before elections already
consume all the time available for advertising. And the public gets
sick of the adds.

40 CEO's from major companies just sent a letter to Congress today, telling
them to lay off and not to use this as an excuse to call them for money even
more than they already do. They anticipate a flood of solicitations.

Who knows? Lobbies are already gearing up for much higher volumes of work,
as of yesterday.

We'll be pledging allegience to the United States, and to the plutocracy for
which it stands...

Maybe Alexander Hamilton was right. He called this new system of government
a "Commercial Republic."

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Ed Huntress